Membrane Excitability: Made Temperature-Dependent by Mutations

AUTOR(ES)

Satow, Youko

RESUMO

Three mutants of Paramecium aurelia with genetic lesions at two unlinked loci lost their ability to generate action potentials when grown at high temperatures. Action potentials found at room temperature were slightly aberrant. Kinetics of phenotypic changes after temperature shifts showed that excitation is not immediately sensitive to temperature change in these mutants. The initiation of an action potential must rely on many different gene products (presumably membrane proteins) which are open to modification by conditional as well as unconditional mutations.

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